January 2014 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

thankyou to all who get the thread going


im in for jan but yet to decide a budget...teeny i think


good luck and a very happy new year to all


tessa

SilverBird_2

Thought I'd attempt a £2,500 annual budget for the 2014 GC (a £500 reduction compared with 2013's monthly targets). Let's see how it goes!!!

laura_hoggle

Hi everyone, and a huge thanks to all who manage the thread! Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and looking forward to 2014!

We are moving out of our rental house at the end of this month, *HOPEFULLY* into the house we are purchasing, but if we haven't completed by then we will have to put all our stuff into storage and move in with my parents for a while...

Therefore the freezer and cupboards need to be emptied, so in theory we only need to buy fresh food. We are also off to New York next week for 5 days to celebrate my 30th birthday, so I'm going to cut the budget by quite a bit this month, in the hope it spurs me on to eat everything we have!

I'm going to attempt a budget of £150 this month, for food, drinks & household products for 2 adults. We have a cupboard full of cleaning products, and were bought enough toiletries for Christmas to last about 2 years (no joke!) so hopefully we can stick to that! We also spent £158 last month, which included the frozen turkey for Xmas day and drinks, so it can be done!

DH went to Li*l today and got some fresh stuff, milk and lunch food and spent £10.96, so I will start of January with that!

fedupandskint

Thank you for setting up the new thread for January.

I'm going for another annual budget reducing it for this year by £240.

My new annual budget is £1200, good luck everyone!

the_cat

I'd like to rejoin if I may please?
I started with good intentions last year and set a budget, but lost count very early on.
This year I need to claw back some overspending on a new car and replenish my savings, so will try to do much better!

BUDGET £5200 for the year please

CH27

Hope you're better now Zippy?

Can I do £40 per week again please?
I lost the plot badly in December so really need to get back on track.

cattysmum

Good afternoon !!! and hope everyone had a wonderful christmas and looking forward to a sparkly new year. I totally lost the plot in december with my spends and looking back cant beleive how much I needlessly spent looking at all the food and nibbles I have left, which will no doubt go to waste.

I want to get back into my grocery challenge mode and go with £200] for January and hope I have some left at the end of the month. Thanks to all who keep boards running smoothly and a Happy new year to everyone

totallybored

I'm going to join in again as I don't think I've done the grocery challenge since 2012. I went back to uni for a year and did quite well at not spending but now I'm working again I've gone back to the bad old Totallybored ways of buying whatever I fancy at Waitrose and M&S.

My budget for the month is £250 and this is for 2 adults plus my dad for about one week in every month.

franby64

Hello

Thank you for the thread Zippy and hope things go OK.

I'd like to join this month for £350. Sadly I've already started January but it shouldn't be too bad from now on with a lot of using up and dieting!

pinkie_pie

Could you please add me, £600 for the month. Going to actually aim to cut this down though!